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10 Sep 2013, 10:53 am by Dave Maass
"A generation ago, I joined with other antiwar activists to successfully sue the FBI over its 'COINTELPRO' program, which violated our right to assemble in opposition to the Vietnam War. [read post]
As part of this image transformation, Helms did what Hoover had done many times—and would do again in April 1971 to protect COINTELPRO when he thought it was about to be revealed—to minimize the possibility that secret operations would be exposed. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 12:30 pm
In an ironic twist, Felt was convicted and then pardoned for ordering illegal “black bag” searches as part of COINTELPRO, a secret FBI program targeting “subversives” that itself only came to light after activists physically stole files from the FBI and sent them to The Washington Post. [read post]
King’s story: our government’s obsessive campaign of surveillance of his private life, as part of the FBI’s shameful COINTELPRO program. [read post]
25 Apr 2019, 2:14 pm by Shahid Buttar
Just as during the COINTELPRO era, law enforcement and private contractors today use surveillance to intimidate, divide, and “neutralize” domestic social movements. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 6:42 pm by Frank Pasquale
” Law enforcers aren’t supposed to set up “dragnet surveillance” of every communication, or use whatever data stores are compiled by the National Security Agency, unless there is a true security threat.Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI’s COINTELPRO program engaged in domestic covert action designed to disrupt groups engaged in the civil rights, antiwar, and communist movements. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 5:54 am by justinsilverman
After documents describing the COINTELPRO operations became public, a U.S. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 4:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
After quoting an appallingly-bigoted former FBI official (who believes, among other things, that CIA director John Brennan is a secret Muslim) and an internal government email that uses a gross ethnic slur (“Mohammed Raghead”), he concludes that we’re dealing with COINTELPRO. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 2:30 pm by Ziv Steinberg
Edgar Hoover-era COINTELPRO investigations targeting civil rights and anti-war activists, the FBI is now training its agents to be on the lookout for "Black Separatist" terrorists, according to FBI training materials released this week by the ACLU. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 7:07 am by Elizabeth Pleck
  My research for Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution (Chicago, 2012) turned up a history usually filed under the heading COINTELPRO or midnight raids on welfare mothers. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 12:38 pm by John Floyd
Edgar Hoover’s unconstitutional “COINTELPRO” surveillance program designed to disgrace, disrupt, arrest, and neutralize Black civil rights activists like Brown. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 6:32 pm by shahid
Alarmed at wide-ranging executive abuses behind a wall of secrecy, Congress enacted reforms that included the creation of a secret court, and insisted on regulations by the Department of Justice to further curtail the FBI's 40-year assault on democracy in the form of COINTELPRO: its infamous Counterintelligence Programs. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 9:45 am
”  The FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (“COINTELPRO”) deployed covert activities against Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (previously known as “Malcolm X”), and Ella Baker in the 1950s and 1960s. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 12:03 pm by Shahid Buttar
During the infamous COINTELPRO era revealed by those committees’ investigations, the FBI actively worked to suppress the movement for equal rights for women, directed violence toward the civil rights movement, placed provocateurs in the movement to end the war in Vietnam, and conducted a character assassination campaign targeting a world-historic leader we now appropriately honor as a national hero. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 7:00 am
In the 1960s, the FBI conducted extensive surveillance of those it deemed “Black Extremists” and “Black Nationalists” under the covert COINTELPRO program. [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 7:57 pm by Guest Blogger
Consider the following domestic surveillance initiatives: the Palmer Raids, COINTELPRO, Watergate, and the army surveillance of Americans that motivated Laird v. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 4:42 pm by Jason Kelley
Recently, the coalition hosted an event at the headquarters of the Organization for Black Struggle, a force in the community since 1980, that drew connections between the history of COINTELPRO and current experiences with federal and local police surveillance. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 11:20 pm by Old Fox
Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves – the violence, the Marxism, the insanity.Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, they have forgotten the FBI’s tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 11:19 am
In response to some anonymous postings on an SOTT.net message board, Laura allegedly posted disparaging comments about the plaintiff (HBI) to the website, including alleged assertions (quoting from the court's opinion) "that "HBI is a ‘front for pedophilia;' HBI is a "cointelpro" organization; HBI markets nothing more than an act of "falling into confluence with a psychopathic reality;" and HBI is… [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 8:47 am by Embajador Microjuris al Día
Edgard Hoover, creador del infame Programa de Contrainteligencia (COINTELPRO, por sus siglas en inglés). [read post]